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^"In Chamonix at the foot of Mont Blanc, people watched in fear as the Mer de Glace
^ (Sea of Ice) glacier advanced. In earlier years, they had seen the slowly flowing
^ ice engulf farms and crush entire villages.
^They turned to the Bishop of Geneva for help, and he made the journey to Chamonix.
^ At the ice front he performed a rite of exorcism.
^Little by little, the glacier receded."
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^The Fifteenth Century saw the end of the Medieval Warm Period and the beginning of
^ the Little Ice Age. In some parts, all of the snow no longer melted in the summer
^ and gradually the world's glaciers began to grow to truly Continental dimensions.
^ With so much water being stored in land ice, sea levels around the world dropped
^ dramatically.
^In the meantime, a pesky little primate species was beginning to get truly
^ interested in technology and exploration. Europe and Asia discovered each other
^ and a search for shortcuts added the Americas to the global community.
^However, to contemporary Europeans, these events were nowhere near as important as
^ the growing power of the Habsburgs. Research and development, formerly focused on
^ agricultural techniques because of the falling harvests, once again turned its
^ sights onto the topic of war.
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